PowerCli to get all the needed data for a VM

 We are going to migrate one of our classical environments which doesn't have NSX to a new env. which has NSX.

To start doing some analysis, we will need to collect these data :

1. all the VMs in the env.

2. The OS

3. The power status

4. VLAN number 

5. The CPU and memory of the VMs

6. The size of the VM in GB without decimals 

7. Cluster

8. IP address

9. Number of NICs

here in this GUT repo you will find the powercli script The PowerCli Script

GET VRA Tokens

We will get the refresh and access tokens for VRA , I am following the below page but with a small adjustment

https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/97d1d46c-8846-4c12-85a8-5655d1189825/3873335e-1ec6-4bac-a9c2-2f62636ce19f/GUID-AC1E4407-6139-412A-B4AA-1F102942EA94.html  

Step number zero :-) . you will need to have a linux VM that can reach to VRA on port 443

1. Define your variables

identity_service_url='https://<vRA-HOSTNAME>'
username='<your_username>'
password='<your_password>'

2. Execute the below command

api_token=`curl -k -X POST \
  "$identity_service_url/csp/gateway/am/api/login?access_token" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "username": "'"$username"'",
  "password": "'"$password"'"
}' | jq -r .refresh_token`

3. Get the refresh token

echo $api_token

to get the access token:

1. Define your variables

identity_service_url='https://<vRA-HOSTNAME>'
username='<your_username>'
password='<your_password>'

2. Execute the below command
access_token=`curl -k -X POST \
  "$identity_service_url/iaas/api/login" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -s \
  -d '{
  "refreshToken": "'"$api_token"'"
}' | jq -r .token`

3. Get the access token
echo $access_token

Create bulk of VRA deployments with VRA

 How can you deploy bulk of VRA deployments with the minimum effort , the answer will be Terraform 

terraform {

  required_providers {

    vra = {

      source  = "vmware/vra"

      version = "0.5.1"

    }

  }

}

provider "vra" {

  url           = "https://YourVraURL"

# I will explain to you how to get the refresh token in another page

  refresh_token = ""

  insecure      = "false"

}

resource "vra_deployment" "Test_deployment" {

  count = 10

  name  = "Terraform - MAIB.${count.index}"

  #name        = "Terraform - MAIB100"

  description = "Deployment description"

# You can get this information from the service broker page 

# The catalog_item_id you can get it from the URL  

#https://ABC.COM/catalog/#/library/55dc45e8-ba3f-378b-b900-c16a556f7a55

#The project ID can be gotten from the infrastructure and choose the projects and get teh project ID from the URL

#https://ABC.COM/automation-ui/#/provisioning-ui;ash=%2Fprojects%2Fedit%2Fd6437f49-ebf6-41eb-821c-13cabb509fc0

  catalog_item_id      = "55dc45e8-ba3f-378b-b900-c16a556f7a55"

  catalog_item_version = "2021.08.25-01"

  project_id           = "d6437f49-ebf6-41eb-821c-13cabb509fc0"

  

# This inputs will be changable from one customer to another 

  inputs = {

    t_shirt_size    = "small",

    deployment_name = "Terraform - MAIB.${count.index}"

    image              = "Windows 2019"

    Backup             = "No Backup"

    #Patching_Method    = "Automated monthly patching"

    #Patching_Week      = "Fourth"

    #Patching_Day       = "Sunday"

    #Patching_Timeframe = "13:00 - 15:00"

  }

  timeouts {

    create = "30m"

    delete = "30m"

    update = "30m"

  }

# I am using this part because we are migrating from NSX-V to NSX-T and the cloud zone is changed after the migration.

    lifecycle {

    ignore_changes = [

      catalog_item_id,

      catalog_item_version,

      inputs

    ]

  }

}

How to make API call on NSX-T with ansible

 We will make execute an ansible playbook to get all the NSX-T segments for us

cat /root/ansible/hosts/hostsNsx.ini
[nsxtdev]
NSX-T.abc.com

cat /root/ansible/playbooks/nsx.yaml

- hosts: nsxtdev

  connection: local

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - name: Get all the NSX-T Segments

    uri:

      url: https://NSX-T/policy/api/v1/infra/segments

      force_basic_auth: yes

      validate_certs: no

      headers:

        Accept: "application/json"

        Content-Type: "application/json"

      user: USERNAME

      password: PASSWORD

      method: GET

      status_code: "200"

      body_format: json

ansible-playbook -i /root/ansible/hosts/hostsNsx.ini /root/ansible/playbooks/nsx.yaml -vvvv

to avoid using  -vvvv and to get the only API call result , you can use the following playbook

 

- hosts: nsxtdev

  connection: local

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - name: Get all the NSX-T Segments

    uri:

      url: https://NSX-T/policy/api/v1/infra/segments

      force_basic_auth: yes

      validate_certs: no

      headers:

        Accept: "application/json"

        Content-Type: "application/json"

      user: USERNAME

      password: PASSWORD

      method: GET

      status_code: "200"

      body_format: json

    register: response

  - debug: var=response.json

ansible-playbook -i /root/ansible/hosts/hostsNsx.ini /root/ansible/playbooks/nsx.yaml